The Junior League of San Antonio (JLSA) Active Member took a 12-month assignment with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Rule of Law Program in Kabul where she is a Senior Legal Advisor who mentors Afghani women prosecutors and judges. In this exclusive interview she shares some of her first impressions of the culture, the justice system, and the women she counsels.

A special post from AJLI‘s Laurie Dodge, Marketing and Communications Director

48 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute*
YouTube is the second largest search engine*
70% of branded content is created by consumers*
The average user of Facebook creates 90 pieces of content per month*
57% of people communicate more online than off* (really????)
This past Monday I had the good fortune to attend the Social Media For Nonprofits conference in New York City, organized by Darian Rodriguez Heyman and Ritu Sharma. In 2012 the series has been scheduled to visit San Francisco; …

When Jean Webb Vaughan Smith died in January in Los Angeles, at the age of 93, she was best known to many as a close friend of Nancy and Ronald Reagan and a Washington insider in the Eisenhower and Reagan administrations. Fair on both counts.

But Jean was also a true Junior Leaguer.

At a time when women “do” many things, it’s easy to forget the trailblazers who were unusual precisely because they were women who reached high positions despite their gender at a time when women weren’t expected to.
Consider Oveta Culp Hobby.
By the time she died at the age of 90 in 1995, Oveta had been the first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (now the Department of Health and Human Services), the first commanding officer of the Women’s Army Corps, and publisher of the Houston Post, for more …